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ISBN 978-0-14-312339-2 $15.00 ($16.00 CAN)<br />

Fiction 5 1 /16 x 7 3 /4 256 pp. Rights: W00<br />

Pub history: Viking hc 978-0-670-02349-3 (as Helen Keller<br />

in Love) On sale: 11/26/2013<br />

SuGGeSTeD ORDeR<br />

“ Captivating . . . a riveting<br />

story.” —Good Housekeeping<br />

“ Rosie Sultan is<br />

adventurous—and brave. . . .<br />

She has given the adult Helen Keller a new<br />

voice.” —The Washington Post<br />

ClassiC <strong>Penguin</strong><br />

106 DeCeMBeR<br />

The astonishing and imaginative<br />

debut novel about Helen Keller and<br />

the man she loved<br />

Helen in Love<br />

A Novel<br />

Rosie Sultan<br />

What comes to mind when you think of Helen Keller? Is it the<br />

deaf-mute wild child at the water pump outside her Tuscumbia,<br />

Alabama, home portrayed in The Miracle Worker or the adult<br />

activist for the rights of the disabled and women, the socialist who<br />

vehemently opposed war? Rosie Sultan’s debut novel imagines an<br />

intimate part of Keller’s life she rarely spoke or wrote about: her<br />

one and only love affair.<br />

Peter Fagan, a reporter from Boston, steps in as her secretary<br />

when her companion Annie Sullivan falls ill. The world this opens<br />

up for her is not the stuff of grade school biographies. Their affair<br />

meets with stern disapproval from Annie and from Helen’s mother,<br />

and when the lovers plot to elope, Helen is trapped between<br />

their expectations and her innermost desires. Sultan’s courageous<br />

novel insists on Helen’s right to desire, to human frailty—to be<br />

fully and completely alive.<br />

n A Denver Post bestseller<br />

n Perfect for bookclubs<br />

n Rosie Sultan won a PEN Discovery Award for fiction<br />

n Visit rosiesultan.com and facebook.com/rosiesultan, and follow<br />

@rosiesultan on Twitter<br />

Rosie sultan is a former fellow at the Virginia Center<br />

for the Arts and has taught writing at Boston University, the<br />

University of Massachusetts, and Suffolk University. She lives<br />

outside Boston.<br />

<strong>Penguin</strong> Readers Guide available <strong>online</strong> at penguin.com<br />

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